Beaufort Sea Exploration Project

The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on earth. Sea ice, which forms when sea water freezes over the surface of the ocean, supports critical habitats that feed and sustain indigenous communities, and it is melting and thinning. In 2013 I joined this research expedition, working with Dr. Jenny Hutchings to deploy drifting bouys and test a ship-based sea ice reporting system. Read more about the day-to-day life of scientists on a Canadian Icebreaker in my dispatches.

Ocean Observatories Initiative

This undersea Cabled Observatory creates human telepresence in the deepest reaches of the ocean with a suite of state-of-the-art instruments connected to high-power, high-bandwidth networks that lie on the seafloor at the boundary of the Juan de Fuca place the the Pacific Plate. In 2013, during the installation period, I joined an expedition to write about this work, and created a short documentary film.